Racing · The DiagnosisPublished · 2026-08-23
The Diagnosis
ESPRIT DU JOUR's win at Kilcoy was faster than 93% of everything run at the trip, and 90% of the track
ESPRIT DU JOUR won race 6 at Kilcoy, faster than 88% of the field it beat. What the run was actually worth.
THE BACK PAGE · the run over the result · ACTUAL SPORTS MEDIA
ESPRIT DU JOUR won race 6 at Kilcoy on Soft 5 over 1200m, averaging 17.05 m/s. That is the result. The run is what follows — the same performance measured against every population that gives it meaning.
| The run, measured against |
|---|
| faster than 65% of its own clocked runs |
| faster than 88% of the field it beat |
| faster than 93% of everything clocked at this trip and going |
| faster than 73% of Emily Lang's rides |
| faster than 67% of Tony Gollan's runners |
| faster than 90% of everything clocked at the track |
| started 1 of 8 in the market at $2.3 |
| 1 of 1 experts were on it |
Read down that list and the win either grows or shrinks. That is the whole point: the race says where they finished, the clock says how fast they actually went, and only one of those two survives contact with the next start.
Evidence Actual Sport IntelligencePublished 2026-08-23
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